Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin is an Associate Clinical Professor of Law at Cardozo Law School, where she teaches and directs the Filmmakers Film Clinic, which provides pro bono legal services to filmmakers and video journalists as well as training on legal issues to filmmakers in the United States and around the world. She is also the director of the Center for Visual Advocacy and the Founding Director of the Program on Leadership at the Heyman Center for Corporate Governance. Previously, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin served as Dean of Students and Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School. Michelle teaches in the areas of intellectual property, transactional law, corporations, negotiation, and leadership. Prior to her appointment at Columbia Law School, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin was a corporate and securities lawyer at Arnold & Porter, LLP. As a leading film lawyer, Professor Greenberg-Kobrin has lectured at film festivals around the world on issues related to copyright, production, distribution and licensing. She received both her BA and JD from Columbia University.

Haley Sylvester is the Clinical Fellow at the Filmmakers Legal Clinic. Previously, she served as counsel to Commissioner Robert J. Jackson, Jr. at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, a position she parlayed into a role as a Research Fellow at the NYU School of Law’s Institute for Corporate Governance & Finance. Before joining the SEC, she served as law clerk to the Honorable Pierre N. Leval on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Earlier in her career, she was an associate at  Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz. Haley is a graduate of Vanderbilt University (B.A.), Columbia Law School (J.D.), and the London School of Economics (LL.M.). She has also taken courses on art law and art business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art.